User:Kaybeesquared

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I have so much to learn that I appreciate all advice and improvements to any articles.

Now retired, if not actually editing, I go to an allotment or knit.

2025 Celebrating Wikimedia

So here's an example of a rabbit hole. I am meant to be writing a brief note for Celebrating Wikimedia. But saw I had explained my new hobbies (non-wiki) so off to find images of allotments... and upload more of my own!

I'd better not start looking at knitting or the wiki story will never be told.

2018

This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in Red

My first training event to be a wiki-editor led by Ewan McAndrew Stinglehammer, focussed on 100years of women's suffrage (in UK)!

That was it... I was hooked... more below.

Women in Red meet ups 2018-2025

I have been joining (when I can) monthly Women in Red (WiR) edit-a-thons at the University of Edinburgh where we are part of a global WikiProject trying to increase the number of notable women with entries in Wikipedia, to help balance the gender gap - together!

Women in Red

Roger and Nick (and me and a.n.other volunteer) at one of my first Women in Red edit-a-thons

Now WiR events are friendly in person at Edinburgh University or virtual editathons on Zoom with trainer Ewan, usually on the last Friday of the month.

You can read more about these here

During the last 6 or 7 years I have worked with such supportive researchers as IanTheActivist and Victuallers (Roger) who have become in person friends.

Themes of my editing are notable women, but I wander off into shipwrecks and lighthouses (after a CodeTheCity remote session) led by Ian Watt and also food, in particular a fun Burns Supper edit-a-thon where we had haggis flavoured crisps and irn bru. Melissa perfected Burn's Supper image on Commons.

2025 September

I go to the 23rd local Wiki-Meet-Up and meet Sara who got me into ScotsWiki editing and new contacts who are admins and editors as well as our host Douglas.

Topics talked over brunch, range from childbirth to copyright, gender balance to train-the-trainers, and even Africa and the Church of Scotland.

So stimulating and interesting and friendly! And yeah, I also talk with my hands, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edinburgh_14_meetup.jpg

2024 September

Workshop on Castles and Witches. There are lots of historians and archivists volunteering to improve wikipedia today.

Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Scottish Castles and Witchcraft#Worklist - Ideas for Articles to Create and Improve

I also got involved in Wiki Loves Monuments when I found some listed buildings in the area I had moved to live in, and also that the Edinburgh Futures Institute only had a limited number of images on Commons, so I took some and uploaded using the easy to use tools provided by the photo competition.